The New Hampshire, Vol. 79, No. 28 (Jan. 24, 1989)
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The New Hampshire ---- Butte Rate,LJ-6 Po~tAoe JS;;; Vol. 79 No. 28 TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1989 (603)862-1490 Durham. N.H. Durham t..J H Perm•! •3(; MLK candlelight march a success By Herman Ejarque More church with candles still UNH banded together last lit, participants were introduced night in the name of humanity to T.J. Wheeler, a sin and racial equality. Participants ger/ guitarist who heads a sea held candles in their gloved coast blues band. hands and slowly walked Wheeler spoke of King, and through campus and downtown the civil rights movement, Durham to the Catholic Church. between his songs. He spoke Some chanted "We shall over of a "resurgance of violent come ... ". behavior" today, 20 years since An estimated 350 people the civil rights era of the mid marched in a candle-lit proces 60' s. Wheeler talked of the racial sion last night in memory of Dr. beatings, murders and injustice Martin Luther King, Jr. in cities like Miami. Tlre l{.i.gil, s ponsor:ed 1-:>y the "It doesn't seem like 1989," GNH Diversity" Committee, Wheeler said, "it seems more began at T-Hall with a few like 1949." speeches followed by a march Mary Oppenheimer, a UNH : similar to that held by Brother grad student of sociology, feels 1 Peace several months ago. that racism is not such an issue The vigil was aimed at more in NH only because the area is than increased awareness of civil "somewhat isolated." When she rights; it addressed the contro first came to NH a year ago, versial issue of making Martin Oppenheimer said s'he did not Luther King day a state holiday see a black person for months. in New Hampshire and it en When she did, "it made me do MLK vigil lit up more than the night. (Karen Hamilton photo) couraged those who attended a double-take; later I had to to become more active in their think twice about that." beliefs. Oppenheimer strongly con was assasinated, Wheeler said, "My-father always told me the Committee, Douglass was Student Body Vice President tends that New Hampshire his family came to the NH same thing; don't just talk, do pleased to see such a large Mike Rose, who spoke under should make Martin Luther seacoast as a retreat, yet NH it." turnout of since're people. "I the T-Hall arches before the King day a holiday. does not honor his birthday. Barnes said he thought show think everyone here tonight sat procession began, said King "I think its a disgrace that we King's dream, according to ing up at an event like this was back and thought about what embodied the phrase "And are one of six states that does Wheeler, was that,one man can a start, but "the real thing is Martin Luther King really Justice For All." Rose said New not support the King holiday," make a difference. "Now we live somehow affecting govern strived for in his life," Douglas Hampshire should continue to Oppenheimer said. in a nuclear age where the ment." said. move forward in the civil rights According to T.J. Wheeler, nonviolent philosophy of Mar A resident assistant of Sawyer P~operly remembering King, movement, and that the univer the state government has ex tin Luther King is more impor hall, Barnes has been involved according to T.J. Wheeler, is a sity should make that move. cused the proposed holiday as tant than it ever was," Wheeler in various student groups and step in the progress he made. Rose asked· President Haa bad for business and that Ronald said, organizations such as the Pro "If we (NH) celebrate Martin land to encourage Governor Reagan proponed that those Les Fisher, UNH associate gressive Student Network. "It's Luther King day we will be Gregg to sign legislation to wanting a King holiday just professor of English, also spoke easy to get downhearted. You making a statement throughout approve the King holiday. Haa wanted another day off. There at the church. Fisher said, in want results, and when they the whole country,"Wheeler land, who spoke briefly before are some corporations however, retrospect, Dr. King may be don't come soon you wonder if said. Rose, did not address the holiday according to Wheeler, such as seen as the most important you are doing anything," Barnes Wheeler called upon the 350 directly, but did join in the Digital Equipment Corp. which person of this period. said. vigil participants to contact state candle-lit procession and chant are strong advocates of such a Advocating being active in Julia Douglass, coordina·tor representatives, in the mail or ing. holiday in the business com one's beliefs, Fisher said, of the vigil, says that the first on the phone, for their support The march went smoothly, munity. "People are not so much what steps in doing anything are to in the King holiday issue which escorted by the Durham Police Weeler portrayed· Martin they say, but what they do." really. think out issues and will voted upon in the next few and 20 hall directors wearing Luther King as a man who truly Bill Barnes, a senior in-phi educate others. Leading the weeks. orange public safety jackets. lived by the NH state motto losophy, agreed with Fisher. educational part of the Diversitv Once seated in the St. Thomas "Live Free or Die." When he Steps taken for expected cuts By Jay Kumar In order to get the other A bill is working its way partially-funded agencies - such through the New Hampshire as USNH, the court systems and state legislature which could the post-secondary and voca mean cutbacks for UNH' s 1989 tional educational systems - to budget. reduce their budgets, Gregg had. "The state is anticipating a to ask for a bill to be drafted and shortfall in revenue" and the brought before the legislature, governor is asking for a reduc Dibiasio said. tion from agencies that aren't Basically, he said, the Uni fully state-funded, like the Uni versity knows it will have to cut versity System, said Dan Dibi back on its budget, but it won't asio, executive assistant to the know how much until the legis president. lature approves the bill. It Dibiasio said new Governor should be approved sometime Judd Gregg imposed a three this week. percent reduction on the fiscal Dibiasio said, "We have taken year 1989 budget for all fully some steps" to deal with the funded state agencies, such as expected cutbacks, but he re the highway department. Also, fused to elaborate. Eugene Sav he froze all vacant positions that age, vice chancellor of university N o more cash to stash. (Mike Farnham photo) have been empty for four system relations, was unavail months or longer. able for comment yesterday. PAGE TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1989 NEWS IN BRIEF -- ... _ - -.4 Singer James Brown Terry Waite missing Violence in Sri Lanka for two years At least 24 people, including four Indian soldiers, faces more charges were killed across Sri Lanka in separatist violence the weekend, military officials said Sunday. Soul legend James Brown, who has been helping Friday marked the second year of the disappear during who cannot be identified under with a prison choir while serving a South Carolina anct:: of Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite, missing The officials standing briefing regulatio~s, said 16 Sinhalese prison term, returned to court Monday to face after he left his Beirut hotel to negotiate the release in seven separate attacks since Saturday. weapons and assault charges in Georgia. Brown of U.S. hostages. were killed The attacks were blamed on the People's was tried for 10 misdemeanor charges stemming No group has claimed ro hold him, and the British From, an organization of radical Sinhalese from qvo arrests last September in Augusta, Ga. government, which refuses ro negotiate with Liberation Colombo's peace overtures to the Tamils Brown is serving a six-year sentence in the State terrorists, says no demands have been made. No opposed to fighting for a separate homeland in the Indian ocean Park Correctional Center for failing tO srop for photographs or videotapes have been released to republic since 1983. police during a two-state car chase Sept. 24. Buddy prove Waite is alive. Dallas of Thomson, Ga., an attorney for Brown, A British official said recently: "We believe Waite said the "Godfather of Soul is in good spirits." is alive simply because we've had no evidence ro the contrary." Cardinal Law leads · 1988 marks rise in anti-abortion rally N.H. AIDS cases Last appeal for Bundy As a small group of pro-choice activists led by The number of AIDS cases reported in New Bill Baird demonstrated outside, more than 500 The serial killer Ted Bundy, 42, who is scheduled jumped by 38 in 1988, to 94, and an people crowded Bosron's Faneuil Hall Sunday to Hampshire for execution roday in Starke, Fla., has one appeal estimated 4,000 state residents have been exposed hear Cardinal Bernard Law lead a rally against remaining. Bundy spent the weekend des~ribing the deadly virus, according to a new report.The abortion. to his murderous career for law officers from several state epidemiologist estimates that 700 residents The 16th annual Assembly for Life also marked On Saturday Bundy confessed to 11 murders will have the disease within three years, according states. the 16th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court in Washington state alone, according to state to information compiled by the New Hampshire decision legalizing abortion.